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Medical professionals are finding it increasingly challenging to distinguish between Covid-19, allergies, and the common cold.
Gone are the days when the loss of taste or smell and a dry cough were the telltale signs of Covid-19.
According to Dr. Erick Eiting, vice chair of operations for emergency medicine at Mount Sinai Downtown in New York City, the symptoms have shifted.
“It isn’t the same typical symptoms that we were seeing before. It’s a lot of congestion, sometimes sneezing, usually a mild sore throat,” he shared with NBC News.
He mentioned that a sore throat usually appears first, followed by nasal congestion.
Eiting admitted that the only reason they identified it as COVID was due to the testing; otherwise, it would have been mistaken for a mere cough or cold.
“The only way that we knew that it was Covid was because we happened to be testing them,” Eiting said.
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So, when it comes to who is being hospitalized now with symptoms being reportedly milder, the CDC says that the 80% increase in weekly average was largely contributed to by those ages 75 and up, followed by babies six months and younger and adults ages 65 to 74.
The U.S. is currently recording approximately 19,000 Covid hospitalizations per week, according to the CDC.
The CDC reported that since January, most people hospitalized for Covid had not received a bivalent booster dose of the vaccine.
Still, cases have continued to decline over the last two years, and a recent study published this month found that the drop in Covid rates began once the omicron variant became the dominant strain of the virus.
Researchers in the study shared that they did not know if milder disease contributed to the trend or if it was caused by population immunity.
The Zoe COVID Symptom Study, which collects data on self-reported symptoms in the U.K., has also documented this trend. The study suggests that a sore throat became more common after the Omicron variant became dominant in late 2021. Loss of smell, by contrast, became less widespread.
The study used data collected from the ZOE app, which tracks symptoms reported by individuals who have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2. The study focuses on two specific time periods: one when the Delta variant was prevalent and another when the Omicron variant was prevalent.
The study, which is funded by NIH, also suggested that the rate of hospital admissions was slightly lower during the period when Omicron was prevalent.
Recall that the Gateway Pundit reported in December 2021 that the CDC will withdraw the emergency use authorization of the PCR test for COVID-19 testing. The CDC urged laboratories to look for alternatives to “facilitate detection and differentiation” between the flu and COVID virus.
Via the CDC website:
In preparation for this change, CDC recommends clinical laboratories and testing sites that have been using the CDC 2019-nCoV RT-PCR assay select and begin their transition to another FDA-authorized COVID-19 test. CDC encourages laboratories to consider adoption of a multiplexed method that can facilitate detection and differentiation of SARS-CoV-2 and influenza viruses. Such assays can facilitate continued testing for both influenza and SARS-CoV-2 and can save both time and resources as we head into influenza season.
This explains the disappearance of Flu cases in the US in 2020. It also inflated the COVID cases, as Dr. Fauci and the DC elites knew would happen.
Even former CDC Director Rochelle Walensky admitted this, saying the testing at the end of quarantine is no longer needed because PCR tests are faulty and can stay positive for up to 12 weeks.
The CDC has known about the faulty PCR tests from the beginning, but they used the tests to destroy the economy and unseat Trump.
Walensky finally admitted what we have known to be true for nearly two years: Faulty PCR tests plus long quarantine times have created a “casedemic.”
“So, what we do know is the PCR test after infection can be positive for up to 12 weeks so that is not going to be helpful,” Walensky said Wednesday on “Good Morning America.”
She continued, “You’re not going to be transmitting during all of that period of time. We’ve seen that in study after study.”
Walensky also admitted the antigen test people were taking five days after Covid infection was faulty and therefore no longer needed.
The Gateway Pundit reported that a study out of Israel has seemingly confirmed that individuals who have natural immunity have better protection against the NEW DELTA VARIANT than people who are fully vaccinated.
The team of researchers, from Maccabi Healthcare and Tel Aviv University, published their study to medRxiv.org.
‘This study demonstrated that natural immunity confers longer lasting and stronger protection against infection, symptomatic disease and hospitalization caused by the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2, ‘ the team of researchers wrote.
Not just a little bit better, either. People who have taken both doses of the Pfizer jab are 13 TIMES more likely to have a breakthrough infection, and are even at a “greater risk for Covid-19 hospitalizations.”
MOST NOTABLY, the study also found – Three months after a 2nd dose, the risk of contracting Covid was 13.06 times higher among the vaccinated and they are 27 TIMES more likely to experience symptoms.
After adjusting for comorbidities, we found a 27.02-fold risk (95% CI, 12.7 to 57.5) for symptomatic breakthrough infection as opposed to symptomatic reinfection (P
Last yr, 250,000 ppl crossed the Darién jungle in a desperate attempt to make it to the US. This year, that number has already reached 360k.